The Graduate Certificate in Executive Business Leadership (EMBA Executive Business Leadership Concentration) is a cohort program comprised of six, two credit hour courses for a total of 12 credit hours.
Courses
BSAD 8280: Employee Recruitment, Engagement & RetentionEffective recruitment, engagement, and retention of highly motivated and high performing employees is critical for organizational success. This course will address the key organizational characteristics that must be in place for this to occur.
BSAD 8070: Coaching and Developing Others
Organizational leaders must effectively coach and develop others in order to ensure sustainable long-term organizational performance. Both through one-on-one feedback and coaching as well as through strategy-aligned organizational-level talent development programs, leaders establish the organization's culture of employee development and growth.
BSAD 8370: Talent Management Leadership
This course will focus on how leaders can proactively and comprehensively enhance organizational effectiveness through maximizing employee engagement, retention strategies and high performance teams using people-focused practices across the entire organization.
BSAD 8330: Leading Teams
This course focuses on building and leading high-performing teams in organizations. Topics include how to evaluate team effectiveness, how to create and develop teams that are cohesive and high-performing, how to lead and facilitate teams, and how to diagnose and intervene when teams are experiencing problems.
BSAD 8650: Vision & Strategic Leadership
This course focuses on the critical role that organizational leaders play in ensuring that the organization has a clear vision and a clear mission which are in alignment with the organization's business strategy and unit goals and effectiveness metrics. This course focuses on the mission and vision creation and communication process as well as vertical and horizontal goal alignment.
BSAD 8230: Leading Change and Innovation
This course focuses on providing leaders with the knowledge and ability to lead organizational change and enhance organizational innovation. Topics include organizational culture, organizational design, and organizational processes (including reward systems).